[agents] [2nd CfP][ECIR 2024] ROMCIR 2024: The 4th International Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval

[Marco Viviani]

[2nd CFP][Apologies for multiple postings][ECIR 2024][ROMCIR 2024]

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ROMCIR 2024: The 4th International Workshop on Reducing Online
Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval

Co-located with ECIR 2024: The 46th European Conference on Information
Retrieval

Glasgow, UK, March 24, 2024

Conference website: https://romcir.disco.unimib.it (will be updated soon!)

Submission link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=romcir2024

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GENERAL DESCRIPTION

The fourth edition of ROMCIR concerns providing access to users to
(topically) relevant and truthful information, to
mitigate the human-generated or AI-generated information disorder
phenomenon concerning distinct domains.
By "information disorder" we mean all forms of communication pollution,
from misinformation made out of ignorance,
automatically built based on biased content, to intentional sharing of
false content (generated both manually
and automatically).

In this context, all those approaches that can serve to assess the
truthfulness of information circulating online and on social
media in particular find their place. This topic is vast, as it concerns
different contents (e.g., Web pages, news,
reviews, medical information, online accounts, etc.), different Web and
social media platforms (e.g., microblogging
platforms, social networking services, social question-answering systems,
etc.), different purposes (e.g., identifying false
information, accessing information based on its truthfulness, retrieving
truthful information, etc.), and different open issues
related in particular to AI (e.g., explainability of search results,
assessment of the truthfulness of automatically generated
content, generative models to support IRSs, etc.).

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THEMES

The themes of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

*  Access to truthful information
*  Artificial Intelligence and information truthfulness assessment
*  Bias detection
*  Bot/spam/troll detection
*  Computational fact-checking
*  Crowdsourcing for information truthfulness assessment
*  Disinformation/misinformation detection
*  Evaluation strategies to assess information truthfulness
*  Generative models and information truthfulness assessment/hallucination
detection
*  Harassment/bullying/hate speech detection
*  Information polarization in online communities, echo chambers
*  Propaganda identification/analysis
*  Retrieval of truthful information
*  Security, privacy, and information truthfulness
*  Sentiment/emotional analysis
*  Societal reaction to misinformation
*  Stance detection
*  Trust and reputation

Data-driven approaches, supported by publicly available datasets, are more
than welcome.

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CONTRIBUTIONS

The workshop solicits the sending of two types of contributions relevant to
the workshop and suitable to generate
discussion:

*  Original, unpublished contributions (pre-prints submitted to ArXiv are
eligible) that will be included in an open-access
post-proceedings volume of CEUR Workshop Proceedings (http://ceur-ws.org/),
indexed by both Scopus and DBLP.
*   Already published or preliminary work that will not be included in the
post-proceedings volume.

All submissions will undergo SINGLE-BLIND peer review by the program
committee.

Submissions are to be done electronically through the EasyChair at:

https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=romcir2024

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SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Submissions must be:

*  Between 10 and 14 pages long (regular papers)
*  Between 5 and 9 pages long (short papers)

We recommend that authors use the new CEUR-ART style for writing papers to
be published:

*  An Overleaf page for LaTeX users is available at:
https://www.overleaf.com/read/gwhxnqcghhdt
*  An offline version with the style files including DOCX template files is
available at:
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip
*  The paper must contain, as the name of the conference: ROMCIR 2024: The
4th Workshop
on Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval,
held as part of ECIR
2024: the 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval, March 24,
2024, Glasgow, UK
*  The title of the paper should follow the regular capitalization of
English
*  Please, choose the single-column template
*  According to CEUR-WS policy, the papers will be published under a CC
BY 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en

If the paper is accepted, authors will be asked to sign (at pen) an author
agreement with CEUR:

*  In case you do not employ Third-Party Material (TPM) in your draft, sign
the document at
http://ceur-ws.org/ceur-author-agreement-ccby-ntp.pdf?ver=2020-03-02
*  If you do use TPM, the agreement can be found at
http://ceur-ws.org/ceur-author-agreement-ccby-tp.pdf?ver=2020-03-02

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IMPORTANT DATES

*  Abstract Submission Deadline: January 05, 2024
*  Paper Submission Deadline: January 12, 2024
*  Decision Notifications: February 16, 2024
*  Workshop day: March 24, 2024

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CHAIRS

*  Marinella Petrocchi (https://www.iit.cnr.it/en/marinella.petrocchi/),
IIT-CNR, Pisa, Italy
*  Marco Viviani (https://ikr3.disco.unimib.it/people/marco-viviani/),
University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy


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*Marco Viviani* (Associate Professor)
University of Milano-Bicocca
Department of Informatics, Systems, and Communication (DISCo)
Information and Knowledge Representation, Retrieval, and Reasoning (IKR3)
Lab
Edificio U14 - ABACUS, Viale Sarca, 336 - 20126 Milan (Italy)
e-mail: marco.viviani at unimib.it
URL: https://ikr3.disco.unimib.it/people/marco-viviani/

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